Improved horse-collar



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. dama saca @anni @dimite i CHARLES MARSHALL, `or NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, AssieNoR To N `THE OLIMAX" HORSE-COLLAR COMPANY,v 0Fv NEW .YORK CITY.

L eaers Patent No. 105,821, laterz my 26, 1870.

IMPROVE!) HORSE-COLLAR.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters `Patentaxid making part of the same.

Be it known that I, CHARLES K. MARSHALL, `of

\ New Orleans, in the parish of Orleans and State ofv Louisiana, have invented certain new aud useful Iruprovements in Horse-Collars and I do hereby declare l l .that the followingis a full, clear, and exact descripf3 i tionof the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing 4and to the' letters `of reference marked thereon, making partici this specification, in which is represented one side of the collar imposition to be passed overthe horses head. M'lhe nature of 'my present invent-ion consists in so recessing or hollowing ont the plates that form the collar as togreatly .facilitate the passing of the rsame over the head'` of the animal. i

While myiimprovement is y'admirably adapted to and cantbe successfully used in all styles of horse-cob,

lars, it is peculiarly applicable, and` canbe, with the greatest advantage, introducedin the manufacture of lthe collars embraced int and covered by my patents of `J une 23, 1868, 'and January 12, `1869.

`Iuthe patents referredtofin order to prevent the galling and chaiing ofthe horse, all padding and stuifing are dispensed with, andthe entire'collar'is coul strncted of metal, wood, gutta-percha, or other hard, u `unyielding substance. i

The material used beingsuc'h as to allow'the collar i C but little, if any, elasticity,lwhen the same is closed s or constructed in one piece, it is apt, as are more or less all other collars, to scar or skin the'horseas it passes over'the'animals head,`especially at the frontal b'one,or upper section of the socket that surrounds the collar-plates that, when the collar is passed over the head, the bones referred to meet no portion of the same,las the recesses protect the auimals head from all direct contact with the un'yieldin'g surface of the metal, wood, or other subst-ance out of which the co1- iar is made.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will now proceed to describe its coustruction and operation. A represents one of the plates, or arhalf section of the collar, and is recessed, as shown at a. This recess a may be of any desired form.

The section of the collar that is recessed is that portion of the same which passes over the frontal bone or upper wall of the socket that inclosesthe eye when the collar is to be applied.

Y This bone always protrudes, 'and consequently, when the collar is not recessed or hollowed out, it is difficult to force the same over the eye and its socket.

' r'lhis is true even with the padded and stuffed collar, ,which is more or less yielding, but with collars constructed ofa hard, unyielding surface the recess is absolutely indispensable, in order to prevent the scarring or Skinning ofthe animal at the pointv referred to. i i

Having thus fully described my invention,

XVhat I'claim therein as new, `and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, isu The collar-plate A, provided with a recess, a, substantially as described, as and for the purpose spec-id.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

O. K. MARSHALL.

`Witnesses;

EDWIN J AMES, FRED. KooNEs. 

